Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-04-23
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The Vatican will thoroughly investigate
the Irish question.
The Sultan Of Turkey is happy in the pos.
session of 4o4 wives.
a friendly treaty has been arranged be.
tween China and Portugal.
The State lottery Of Austria. Hungary last
year netted profit Of 5000. 900 forms.
fdler Won Seyfied, nobleman of long
descent, is the public executioner Of Vienna.
Some $50 Russian officers are being trans
ported for connection with the revolutionary
party.
There are indications that the freight rates
between Chicago and the West will soon be
reduced.
Leprosy exist to considerable extent in
the provinces Of Talencia, Alicante and AL
meria, in Spain.
The anti-missionary riot in Smyrna was
caused by naturalized American preaching
against the Greek Church.
There are indications of the passenger traf-
&C to the United State and Canada being ex-
ceptionally brisk this season.
The tin-platers in Wales, after a strike Of
six months fer an increase in wages, have re-
turned to work at the old rates.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has decided
that married woman need not take her hus.
bands name unless she chooses.
To meet the free. pass question Dakota has
appropriated $1,000 year for her Supreme
Court Judges travelling expenses.
George Werner, school teacher, has fed
from Milwaukee to avoid arrest for causing
the death or pupil whom he punished.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company will build up an industrial
townon the Pullman model near Kansas City.
The fastest torpedo boat in the world, ~
knots an hour, has just been completed by
English builders for the Chinese Government.
A servant recently discharged by Count
Andrassy of Hungary, administered arsenic
to large number Of his herses, five Of which
died.
The use Of opium. morphine, cocaine and
narcotics generally by persons of delicate or
carnations is alarmingly large in New York
city.
| A tribunal at Odessa sentenced Lieut..
Goreff to eight years hard labor in the mines
of Siberia, for distributing revolutionary cir
culars.
The i.prohibitionists of Texas will hold
State Convention at Dallas on May 4th.
Three month later the people will vote on
| the temperance amendment.
A colored Baptist, named Williams, who
has been holding revival meetings at De Soto,
Mo-, was during recent night taken from
bed and iogged by FIVE masked man.
The Sultan of Morocco recently punished
one Of his subjects. who persisted in smoking
in violation Of the recent decree prohibiting
the use Of tobacco, by having his lips cut off.
An Indianapolis and St. Louis engine is
said to have recently made mile in forty.six
seconds, drawing three passenger cars load
ed. This is at the rates ofseventy eight miles
per hour.
Private letters from St. Petersburg say the
students who attempted recently to take the
life of the Car were mere boys. One was
IS and the other Io years Of age, while the
eldest is "a.
Fred Kindle, employed in tannery at
Cincinnati recently, walked into the hopper
of the bark-mill, and before the machinery
could be stopped, his legs to the knees were
ground to pulp.
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer Of
Dakota. will this spirng put in 3a.ooo acres
| of wheat. In his opinion Dakota will next
fall give to the world bulk of wheat that
will surprise the widest spectators.
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe, beside the be.
quest of her paintings and $2oo, 900 endow-
ment to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, left $4,000 as an endowment
to Grace Clutch and $z6o, 900 more in vari-
Gus charities.
Objection has been made to the landing at
Boston of eight women who came from Eng
land to work at velvet weaving. They were
| to pay so much per week to cover the pass
age money advanced to them. and this it is
claimed, is contract and violative of the
Federal c Institution.
A train-load of 33s cattle, from Cotulla,
Texas which had been fattened on prickly
pear and cotton seed meal. sold on the Chi
cago market last week at s. rs per hundred.
The cattle attracted considerable attention,
from the fact that it was the FIRST large lot Of